Reviews
Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
Creating Hitler’s Germany: The Birth of Extremism
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How did it happen? This must be the greatest question of the 20th century. How did a technologically advanced, highly educated, European parliamentary ...Read Review
Mrs. Everything
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Spanning seventy years in two sisters’ lives, this is Jennifer Weiner’s first historical novel, and it’s an impressive one. As children, ...Read Review
The Art of Theft (The Lady Sherlock Series)
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Latest in the Charlotte Holmes, Lady Sherlock series, The Art of Theft discovers a detailed and engaging mystery with the consistently readable style ...Read Review
Red Dove, Listen to the Wind
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This story is set in western South Dakota circa 1890. It focuses on thirteen-year-old Red Dove, half-Lakota (Sioux) and half-white. She and her mother ...Read Review
Girls on the Home Front
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The author’s first novel is the start of a series of historical sagas set amongst the “Factory Girls” of the North East ...Read Review
The Cobbler’s Daughter
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In 1872, strong-willed Jenny Crispin, having broken up with her fiancé, arrives in New York City from Pottsville, Pennsylvania. She works as a clerk ...Read Review
The Serpent, The Puma, and The Condor
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In scope, Marie’s debut novel describes the fall of the Inca Empire, but in essence, it tells the remarkable life story of ...Read Review
The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
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The Ghosts of Eden Park chronicles the rise and fall of George Remus, “King of the Bootleggers,” during Prohibition. Author Karen Abbott illustrates ...Read Review
Walk Till You Disappear
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Miguel Abrano lives on the family horse ranch just outside Tucson in 1872. He is nearly 13 and thinks himself almost a man, certainly old ...Read Review
The Dutch House
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At the end of World War II, Cyril Conroy buys the Dutch House, a large, glass house on the outskirts of Philadelphia formerly ...Read Review